A National Beef Cattle Breeding Research Program has been initiated and is organized in three areas which are referred to as the Western, Southern, and North Central Regions in the United States. The Kansas Agricultural ...

This is a report on the wintering phase of this test. It will be completed at the close of the grazing season in 1951. The purpose of this study is to determine the best method of wintering good quality steer calves that ...

It is a well known fact that thin steers usually gain more on grass than fleshy steers. However, little information is available about the total gain, winter and summer, of steers wintered in different ways and then grazed ...

The Kansas, Oklahoma, and Ohio Agricultural Experiment Stations co-operated in this study, which was supported by grants from the American Hereford Association. The project involved comparisons of steer calves sired by ...

Many of the feed lambs coming into Kansas have not had access to salt for several weeks and some of the lamb feeders do not add salt to their lambs fattening rations because of the possible losses in getting the lambs again ...

Lamb fattening rations varying in physical nature buy virtually alike chemically have been studied at the Kansas Agricultural Experiment Station for a number of years. Previous tests have demonstrated that the rate of gains ...

A great deal of interest in rolled grain has been expressed. Some commercial feeders have purchased rollers in preference to grinders; a few feeders truck grain to town to have it rolled in preference to grinding grain at ...

The purpose of this study is to develop a system of fattening heifers for feeders who do not have native pasture or have no pasture. The plan of production is to buy good quality heifer calves in the fall, winter them well ...

In recent years much attention has been given to the feeding of distillers by-products to livestock. One of these distillers dried soluble derived from the malting of various grains. In addition to other nutrients, it ...

This year’s experiments included first, a series of wheat pasture tests, and later, various feedlot fattening tests. In the five lots of lambs on wheat pasture the effect of withholding salt, the value of additional roughage, ...

This is a report of the wintering phase of this test. Following this phase the different lots will either be full-fed or go to grass and be full-fed after the grazing period. The objective of the test is to develop a method ...

The primary purpose of this test is to determine if yearling steers can be satisfactorily wintered on dry bluestem pasture. Different protein supplements as well as methods of feeding them on dry bluestem pasture are being tested.